Article ID: CBB000932190

From Wasteland to Wetland? Nature and Nation in China's Tibet (2009)

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The environmental history of Lhasa's Lhalu wetland reveals problems with competing ecological nationalist narratives of the Chinese state and Tibetan exiles. Both deny Tibetans the possibility of being historical agents vis-à-vis nature. The article traces a series of environmental projects enacted on the wetland from the 1950s to the present. Each one, enacted to secure the unstable edges of state sovereignty, ironically paved the way for the next. Certain aspects must be excluded from both ecological nationalist narratives and political ecological analyses because they do not conform to the linear, homogenous times and spaces required by narratives of the nation and universalized "nature." Disrupting these teleologies creates space for a fuller spectrum of accounts, memories, and practices of nature.

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Authors & Contributors
Zhang, Jingfei
Keck, Frédéric
Thomson, Jennifer Christine
Zhang, Jiuchen
Wang, Zuoyue
Wang, Yangzong
Concepts
Environmental sciences
Nature
National histories
Science and politics
East Asia, civilization and culture
Cross-national interaction
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
China
Tibet
United States
Yellow River (China)
Sichuan Sheng (China)
Western states (U.S.)
Institutions
World Wildlife Fund
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Royal Society of London
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